Gotye, my love…
“My thing is, I hated going to see bands that I really liked only pass the mic into the crowd once. It meant a lot for them to take the time to pass it to me, you know? I’ve heard people say that our shows are great, but I pass the mic too much. I’m like, ‘if you want to hear me sing, buy the record. If you want to see a show, then come to our show.’ I do it because if it wasn’t for the kids singing along, there’d be no reason for us to keep playing except to amuse ourselves. I don’t want anybody to feel like they’re not cool enough, or they’re not good enough, to participate.”—
Adam Lazzara (via whoa-whoa-woe)
As someone who has had Adam pass her the mic, my heart is all a’flutter reading this.
My Chemical Romance Transcripts: Why We Need This
Some of you may know me from my other various My Chemical Romance projects around the web as Cassie The Venomous or the #MCRchat girl.
With a news blog and an active Twitter chat why, you would be justified in asking, would I create yet another MCR project?
It’s simple: information access.1. We still have yet to master making multimedia items like audio and video searchable. That leads to fan confusion about the origin of quotations, their contexts and validity. I often see scenarios like this:
“Do you know in what article Gerard said ‘Let’s just say I’m good at the rodeo?’”
“No. That’s weird. Why would he say that?”
“I don’t know. Someone on Tumblr just said he did.”
There are several problems in the aforementioned scenario. One is that the medium is wrong. It was not, in fact, an “article” in which Gerard said that but in a radio interview. Also, it is out-of-context, so it makes entirely no sense.
Transcribing video and audio interviews will make them more searchable.
Without knowing the context, a fan would have difficulties finding the WSOU interview from which the quote is derived. Additionally, and this brings me to my next point, sometimes they would not be able to access the interview even after they have found it.2. Not all of us have high-speed connections that allow us access to audio and video. It’s sad but true. When I go home from University, I am among this group. Because one does not live in an area geographically suited for a high-speed connection or cannot afford it does not mean that the information should not be available to him or her.
Additionally, some people use screen-readers or devices that aid disability that are unable to play videos.
This may seem like a backward move to those in the technological fast-lane; however, there is power in knowledge and information should be there for everyone to find.
Transcribing video and audio interviews will make them accessible to a wider group of fans.3. We’re an international fan community, and it is simply easier to translate text than it is to transcribe from audio. Simple as that. MCR’s fans come from all over the world. I can only imagine if my first language were not English and I had to do heavy translating each time I watched one of their interviews.
Transcribing video and audio interviews will aid in making them more understandable on a more global scale.
Obviously, I take my MCR very seriously, but I am certainly not alone in that. With hope, this page will aid fans in finding and verifying information while also including some fans who have been left out along the way.
Now that I’ve had time to get some content up here, I figured I’d spread the word about it a bit.
I hope this will help some people, and if you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Title: “My Chemical Romance Discuss “The Kids From Yesterday” music video”
Source: NovaFM
Date: February 1, 2012
Transcribed By: Cassie
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(Commentary, interspersed with “The Kids From Yesterday” video)
Mikey Way: We had seen a video a fan had made and were really inspired by it and really touched, and were like “Wow, we’ve never really thought about making a video like this,” and it kind of lead to us making “The Kids From Yesterday.”
[video footage]
Mikey Way: You know, it’s kind of like a time capsule: where we’ve been, where we’re going. It shows you every era of our career and the whole evolution of us as a band.
New interview with Mikey Way and Gerard Way.
Text version:
Source: MTV Australia (via MCRupdates, uploaded for international audiences by Youtube user carmesim)
Date: January 31, 2012
Transcribed by: Cassie—-
(Commentary, interspersed with “The Kids From Yesterday” video)
Mikey Way: The great thing about Big Day Out is: there’s so many different genres of music on one bill, and you know, bands that normally wouldn’t play together get to play together, so there’s amazing acts that we love that we’re able to share the stage with.
Gerard Way: This year we’re psyched to see Kanye—
Mikey Way: —Kanye’s great…
Gerard Way: —it’s going to be fun. The Living End is on it, and we’ve known those guys for a long time, so it was nice to see them again.
Mikey Way: It would be a pipe dream, though, to collaborate with Noel Gallagher.
Gerard Way: Yeah, yeah—
Mikey Way: He’s been a hero since as far back as I can remember.
Gerard Way: Yeah, ‘really excited to watch his set. We haven’t gotten a chance to yet…. We’ve been touring. We spent a year touring, and then uhm— we’re building out a studio right now to start the next record.
Mikey Way: Get new music out sooner than later is our plan right now…. I think we’ve learned to tour smarter. Instead of, normally we’d be at the halfway point of the tour where we’d have another year of touring, and now we’re going to put the breaks on it, so that we can go home, decompress, spend time with our families, and then start writing new music. We wrung ourselves dry during Black Parade, and we brought ourselves to the boiling point, and we-, yunno, this time we promised ourselves we wouldn’t do that, and we didn’t.
Gerard Way: Certain countries have really embraced this band, and then we’ve gone there and embraced them. Japan was one of those places, so it was just very important for us— You know, you go all over the world and then sometimes you have a really strong, kind of magical connection with a group of people, and that was one of those places, much like in the UK.
So, causes, of course, we like to always be involved with those. We were involved with Linkin Park’s tsunami efforts when that had happened years ago, and then this one, obviously, we were involved in. So, yeah, it’s important…
I think that, if anything, is the responsibility of a musician: not to explain themselves or to apologize, but to be involved in stuff that actually helps the world. …
This band is the 4 guys you see in the band, and the drummer thing is just: it is what it is for our band. I don’t think it’s a curse, I don’t think it’s anything— It’s just always been what it is, and it’s kind of like us and James, and right now we love playing with Jarrod. He’s awesome, and he saved our butts, and he flew out, he learned all the songs… He kept us on the Blink tour, so… We thought we were going to have to cancel, and we didn’t because he showed up and helped us out. And he’s so fun to play with.
Mikey Way: We, every night, play it like we mean it, and that’s all you can do. I would tell bands to just write music that you love, and don’t worry about trying to sell albums. Don’t worry about trying to fit into a genre. Don’t worry about trying to impress people. You know… Just write what comes from your heart, and people are attracted to that.
Gerard Way: Absolutely. 100%. Like, don’t worry about how many friends you get on Myspace. Just play shows, you know. Those are the real, emerging kind of bands that I start to find now. I don’t even think they have Myspace pages. It’s pretty cool.
Mikey Way: 2012. We’re gonna head home.
Gerard Way: No touring. Just making music. I think that’s the rest of the year is going to be us working on our next album, or whatever it ends up being.
(If you see any corrections that need to be made, please submit them.)
I’ve been so obsessed with this song for like two weeks now, thanks to Cassie. And now it’s on Spotify so I can listen to it all the time.
I challenged myself today: How long can I go without listening to this. I’m at hour 2.5, but as soon as I get on my bus for class, it’s happening. So, 3 hours is my limit.
